In Which Todd Tiahrt Doesn’t Read People Magazine
Just a little background – The Family Research Council is the political arm of Dobson’s Focus on the Family comedy club that Tony Perkins (not the dead, gay actor) runs. Tony (not the dead, gay actor) puts out the Washington Watch Weekly podcast which tells the base who to hate and how much to hate them. Thanks to the podcast I now know that abortion discriminates on the basis of “age, size and place of residence”. I wish I was kidding.
Like most xtians, Tony doesn’t care about the truth and doesn’t expect his guests to, either. They’re free to spout whatever egregious lies pop into their head as long as it advances their agenda. In fact, at the end of the last weeks podcast, John Sununu, former governor of New Hampshire, railed
against the legislature for legalizing gay marriage. He darkly told the base that homos and liberals (and, please, sit down for this) used money to help candidates sympathetic to gay causes get elected! Didn’t I tell you to sit down? Yes, they used the American political process to advance their agenda which is just about the sleaziest thing a person could possibly do. I’d feel badly but I’m too busy thinking about the Muslim kitties I’m going to have sex with after I finish this.
Todd Tiahrt (pronounced tee-hart and thank you Google for understanding what I meant when I searched for him) gave a bravura performance demonizing national healthcare by either 1) not listening to his wife during the passing of Natasha Richardson or 2) outright lying. Let’s let Todd tell us a very scary story about how the Canadian healthcare system killed her.
Now let’s hear what really happened.
On 16 March 2009, Richardson sustained a head injury, when she fell while taking a skiing lesson at the Mont Tremblant Resort in Quebec, Canada about an hour and a half from Montreal. The injury was followed by a lucid interval, when Richardson seemed to be fine and was able to talk and act appropriately. Paramedics and an ambulance which initially responded to the accident were told they were not needed and left.Refusing medical attention, she returned to her hotel room and about three hours later was taken to a local hospital after complaining of a headache. She was transferred from there by ambulance to the Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal in critical condition and was admitted about seven hours after the fall. The following day she was flown to Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, where she died on 18 March.
Tiahrt wants you to beileve that the evil Canadians refused her healthcare. Except that she initially refused treatment and she wasn’t Canadian so blaming the Canadian healthcare system is (and there’s really no other phrase for it) fucking retarded.
But, wait, Todd’s not done.
Not only does the Canadian system suck but the Mexican system sucks, too, because it “hasn’t been able to cope with this swine flu”.
WHUH?
Let’s think of the swine flu as ants in your house. You see a bunch of ants nibbling away at (in my case) the mound of cedar wood cat litter that gets scratched out of the box and onto the floor. So you grab a broom, sweep the litter and ants into a dust pan and dump the contents into a plastic bag. You knot the plastic bag, sealing the ants inside, and then throw it in the garbage. It’s called “containment”. Thus, the number of ants are significantly reduced. If you just left them to their own devices you’d soon have a house full of ants.
Given that the swine flu was projected to kill every living thing on the planet and that Mexico pretty much locked everything down, killing of tourism for a week or so, I think the Mexican healthcare system did a pretty goddamn good job of dealing with swine flu.
It’s also interesting to note that Todd stresses that healthcare is 15% of our economy. So it seems pretty clear that Todd doesn’t care as much about who gets help as he does about who’s going to finance his re-election campaign. So that he can continue to advance his agenda.
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